Carapace pubescent, with transverse granular lines on frontal, protogastric and mesogastric regions, epibranchial line interrupted only at the cervical groove; front with 6 subequal triangular distally rounded teeth; antero-lateral borders with 6 teeth, first and second smaller than the following ones and subequal, last one slightly more prominent than preceeding teeth; postero-lateral junctions rounded. Antennalflagellum excluded from orbit. Chelipedmerus with 3 spines on anterior border, posterior border smooth; carpus with a strong internal spine, outer border with 3 spines; palm with 4 spines on upper border. Merus and carpus of swimming leg each with a posterior spine, propodus with 6-12 denticles on posterior border. (Türkay 1995)

Alcock, A.W., 1899a. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 4. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part 2. A revision of the Cyclometopa with an account of the families Portunidae, Cancridae and Corystidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 68, part 2(1): 1-104, pls 1-2.

Chopra, B.N. & K.N. Das, 1937. Further notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. IX. On three collections of crabs from Tavoy and Mergui Archipelago. Record of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 39(4): 377-434, figs 1-21, pl. 6.

Chopra, B.N., 1935. Further notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. VIII. On the Decapod Crustacea collected by the Bengal Pilot Service off the mouth of the river Hooghly. Brachygnatha (Oxyrhyncha and Brachyrhyncha). Record of the Indian Museum, 37(4): 463-514, 18 figs, pl. 9. [1935/XII]

de Man, J.G., 1887c. Report on the Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S. Superintendent of the Museum. Part II. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, (Zoology), 22(137): 65-128, pls 4-8.

Miers, E.J., 1884a. Crustacea (Brachyura). In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. Alert 1881-1882. Part I. The collections from Melanesia. Part II. The collections from the Western Indian Ocean. British Museum (Natural History), London, 8(1): 178-322, pls 18-32.

Sankarankutty, C., 1966a. On Decapoda Brachyura from the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea Held at Ernakulam from January 12 to 15, 1965. Marine biological Association of India, Symposium Series 2(1): 347-362, pls 1-2.

Zarenkov, N.A., 1968b. On the crabs of the genus Charybdis de Haan from the collections of Soviet-expedition in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Ser. Biologia, Pochvovedenie, 1968(2): 32-38, 3 figs. (In Russian)

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